I have 2 physical HD's in my system, one sata, and another a standard IDE drive set as master.
Windows XP is installed on the sata drive, I had linux installed on the ide drive. I was not using any boot manager on my main drive (sata - windows xp). At boot, I hit F11 and choose a boot device, selected my ide drive and linux (redhat) would boot. everything was cool. I had a primary partition on both drives.
removed all the partitions from the ide drive with linux, tried to install vista. hangs all the time on boot. it wont install booting off of the dvd, or if installed from inside of windows xp.
Next I unpluged the sata drive, booted off the dvd, installed vista just fine to the ide drive. boots fine as well.
Now if I plug the sata drive back in, it boots xp just fine, but if I choose the ide drive as a boot device vista hangs everytime when it booting up right when the bars move from left to right.
Weird? Worked ok with linux without a boot manager...
Anyone else use dual booting without a boot manager program?
Windows XP is installed on the sata drive, I had linux installed on the ide drive. I was not using any boot manager on my main drive (sata - windows xp). At boot, I hit F11 and choose a boot device, selected my ide drive and linux (redhat) would boot. everything was cool. I had a primary partition on both drives.
removed all the partitions from the ide drive with linux, tried to install vista. hangs all the time on boot. it wont install booting off of the dvd, or if installed from inside of windows xp.
Next I unpluged the sata drive, booted off the dvd, installed vista just fine to the ide drive. boots fine as well.
Now if I plug the sata drive back in, it boots xp just fine, but if I choose the ide drive as a boot device vista hangs everytime when it booting up right when the bars move from left to right.
Weird? Worked ok with linux without a boot manager...
Anyone else use dual booting without a boot manager program?
